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1. I INTEND AND CREATE NOW… [e.g., that the home that we find is under our budget, airy, light, clean, safe for the children, private, beautiful, will fit all of our furniture and belongings, feels calm and peaceful. May our new home be white with blue shutters, and have land to have a garden big enough to grow seven different types of vegetables and fruit, too. May the soil be rich and healthy. There is enough room for our family vehicles. My family and I are always healthy and happy within the home and property]
2. I INTEND AND CREATE NOW… [e.g., that the man of my dreams is available, single, taller than I, has a job, a good honest family with good morals and values, funny, adventurous, fun to be around, creative, easy to talk to, gets along with all of my friends and family, is supportive, compassionate, empathetic, understanding, on the same wavelength as I am, very handsome, amazing in bed, has perfect chemistry with me, has great taste that is on par with my own, has his goals in a similar direction as I, lives near me, has healthy feelings toward being committed and wanting a family, is very healthy physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally]
3. I INTEND AND CREATE NOW… [e.g., that I feel healthy and productive]
4. I INTEND AND CREATE NOW… [e.g., accomplishing all that I set out to do today and feel great for it]
5. I INTEND AND CREATE NOW… [I think you’ve gotten the idea!]
And that’s it! Now close your notebook and go about your day. See what happens. See what your mind-set is like. Now wake up and do it all again tomorrow. In the words of Larry David, it’s pretty, pretty, pretty cool.
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NOTES
1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nhi.gov/pubmed/7943444.
2 http://underourskin.com/news/lyme-destroys-families-update-jordan-fisher-smith.
3 Polly Murray, The Widening Circle: A Lyme Disease Pioneer Tells Her Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996).
4 http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=691188.
5 http://www.lymeresearchalliance.org/test-diagnostic.html.
6 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547183/.
7 http://www.lymebook.com/chronic-lyme-symptoms.
8 http://www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/LymeDiseaseAndCognitiveImpairments.htm.
9 http://www.ilads.org.
10 http://new.homelesschildrenamerica.org/mediadocs/280.pdf.
11 http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2015/06/researchers-discovery-may-explain-difficulty-in-treating-lyme-disease/.
12 http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/Jarisch–Herxheimer%20reaction.
13 https://chronicillnessrecovery.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161.
14 http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/treatment/.
15 http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A project like this one would not exist without the help of many. First and foremost, I would like to thank my soulmate and best friend—father of our daughter, Harley—Steve Hash. You have been a source of constant encouragement, inspiration and true love. You are my safe harbor.
I also wouldn’t have known how to navigate the seas of my life, let alone the choppy waters of telling my story, without the unconditional and unwavering love from my parents, Tommy and Susie. You inspired me to be my own person. Thank you to my brother Richard, sisters Elizabeth and Kathleen, Dee and little Sebastian, I love you to the moon and back. I would also like to thank the wonderful Hash family. A special thank you to Roberta Sorvino and Celsa Avendano, my honorary family. I would have to extend this section five more pages if I were to list out all of my loving and wonderful friends who are my inspiration, cheerleaders, and folks who made me laugh amidst moments of doubt or stress.
Special thank you needs to go to Yolanda Foster, not only for her support in our mutual battle against Lyme, but for introducing me to the best literary agents ever: Jan Miller and Lacy Lalene Lynch of Dupree/Miller. You are angels on earth and a dream team. I’ll be eternally grateful to Rolf Zettersten and Kate Hartson from Hachette. Thank you for trusting in this memoir and for the help from your whole publishing team: Patsy Jones, Andrea Glickson, Katie Broaddus, Alexa Smail and everyone else at Hachette who participated in the making of this book. I would also like to thank my wonderful PR team at PMK, Lauren Auslander and Jennifer Abel. You girls are dynamite! And thanks to Dan and Marc for leading me to you!
There were times in the beginning when the process felt overwhelming. So thank you Jeanne Darst for showing up at my house every Wednesday at 1pm to read a new chapter. You helped guide me over the first hurdle of writing my story honestly and fearlessly. Brian McDonald, thank you for guiding me through structuring, rewriting and filling in the missing parts. I am forever grateful for your knowledge, friendship and hard work.
I am also very grateful for my father, Dr. Harriet Kostorsis, and Dr. Ellyn Shander for the contributions you worked on so diligently. They were very helpful for this book.
Finally, I’d like to thank the many doctors and healers who have helped me and Global Lyme Alliance for tirelessly searching for a cure. Without you I would never have been able to build my bridge back to life, let alone write this book! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
foreword by Tommy Hilfiger
preface
PART ONE 1. A Bite of Crazy
2. Fashion Fairy Tale
3. “Off to See the Wizard…”
4. Scared Heart and Growing Pains
5. To Pee or Not to Pee
6. Valium and Helicopters: “Ze Doctor Vil Zee You Now”
7. The Green Lollipop Excuse
8. Painting, Chanting, and Pitching Films to Famous Actors
9. In Angel’s Wings… and Handcuffed
10. Deal with the Devil
11. Wilfred and the Burrito Incident
12. Turning to Judaism in a Karaoke Nightclub
13. From the ER to Bungalow 8
14. Commencing Countdown, Engines On…
PART TWO 15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
16. The Purple Goddess
17. Nights in White Satin
PART THREE 18. The Battle Begins
19. In the Blood
20. Brain Fog, Herxing, and Don Hill’s
21. Dad, Light the Nag Champa
22. Straight to the Heart
23. Smelling Like Garlic and Loving the High
24. Head, Shoulders, Knees and… Fingernails?
25. Happy Birthday, Ally
26. The German Protocol
27. The Man All in Black and a Wide-Brimmed Hat
28. East Meet West and Closes the Door
29. Highway to Heaven
30. Not at All What I Was Expecting…
epilogue
Appendix 1: Two Doctor’s Opinions
Appendix 2: Focus Wheels and Written Intentions
Notes
Acknowledgments
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
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